Forget Arduino & Raspberry Pi being the embedded platform computing standards, PC/104 has reigned supreme for over 25 years and is still THE industrial embedded computing standard.
Dave boots up a 17 year old 80386SX PC-104 board with Disk On Chip flash drive. Well, after a lot of frustration anyway.
And does anyone remember ThunderByte anti-virus?
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TSMC says its 3nm fab will be located in the Tainan Science Park in Taiwan. There had been speculation that the company might locate it outside Taiwan – perhaps in the USA. TSMC says it ‘recognises and is grateful for the government’s clear commitments to resolve any issues, including land, water, electricity and environmental protectioN.’ ...
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Nordic Semiconductor's nRF52840 chip becomes officially Thread 1.1 Certified, for bridging between networks.
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Rohde & Schwarz is addressing the simulation of GNSS satellite location signals with a multiple input tester that can operator simultaneously in multiple frequency bands for multiple antennas. GNSS receivers are able to process signals from diverse navigation systems such as GPS, Glonass, Galileo or BeiDou in several frequency bands in order to improve positioning accuracy. ...
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Nordic-Baltic countries Sweden, Finland and Estonia are leading the roll-out of 5G mobile services in Europe and local operator Telia claims to have deployed the first public 5G live network use cases in Europe. This is a collaboration between the Swedish mobile operator and technology suppliers Ericsson and Intel. One of the use cases demonstrated ...
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Audi has revealed its 2017/2018 season all-electric racing car, the e-tron FE04, with an Audi motor and gearbox, developed with Schaeffler. “After nearly 40 years of being active in motorsport, Audi now becomes the first German automobile manufacturer to compete in Formula E in order to test and advance the development of new technologies for production,” said ...
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Dave got hit with seven Copyright Content ID claims for background music used in his video, from a company called Adrev a.k.a “Adrev for Rights Holders”
UPDATE:
2ND UPDATE: (From SmartSound)
Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. We actually do not use AdRev, or any other company, for Content ID, but we do work with them to release incorrect copyright claims. Since all of our music is royalty-free, flagging our own music would be counter-productive for us. These claims do come up for some music in our library that was originally licensed from the original composer on a non-exclusive basis. This music is indeed royalty-free when purchased from us, but the composer may also be selling the music through other methods that are not royalty-free, and YouTube cannot tell the difference, so it flags the video. These claims are quickly released using the methods listed on our website here: http://ift.tt/2fD9q6k
However, the music tracks that you reference in the video, “Clear Vision” and “Wild Chase”, are actually owned exclusively by SmartSound and should not be in Content ID at all. In fact, these are 2 of the 5 free tracks that are included with our Sonicfire Pro software that anyone can download for free. It seems that someone has taken these tracks and uploaded them to Content ID and claimed them as their own and is now trying to collect revenue. We take this very seriously and are already working to remove the fraudulent claims for these tracks. SmartSound music is 100% licensed to be used on monetized YouTube videos, and even though Content ID will flag first and ask questions later, we have found that AdRev and other similar companies are usually quick to remove the claims when they are incorrect. Disputing the claim through YouTube never seems to get very far, but using the advice from the link above and notifying AdRev directly through the link in our FAQ should resolve the issue in a timely manner.
Again, thank you for bringing this to light. This is a case of someone fraudulently claiming our music as their own, and we will get to the bottom of it immediately. If you have any questions please feel free to let me know.
Best regards,
SmartSound Software, a label of Eins Medien GmbH
www.smartsound.com
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P.S. I have also heard from the head of SmartSound. All claims have been released now but I received another 3 new claims overnight. They should get sorted too.
Dave finally got hit by the dreaded Adpocalypse demonetisation on his Minute Physics / Bill Nye video.
Also a look at the EEVblog advertising revenue and if its has been hit by the Adpocalypse advertising revenue drop in general. Views are compared with revenue to show any drop in ad revenue over time.
e-peas, the Belgian energy-harvesting IC start-up, has raised a new $4.2 million funding round. The round was led by Partech Ventures and comprises Airbus Ventures, JCDecaux Holding, Semtech, SRIW and Vives. Having initially gained both local government grants and private seed investment funding back in 2014, e-peas brought its AEM10940 energy harvesting chip to market. Through this ...
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ADI has brought out a metering IC that includes mSure diagnostics technology enabling direct and noninvasive monitoring of electric meter accuracy and faults in real-time. mSure-enabled meters, combined with a cloud analytics service, provide utility companies with real-time data and actionable insights to protect revenue from tampering, manage field resources more effectively, cut equipment cost, ...
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Toshiba is in mass production of optocouplers in a new wide leadform package type SO6L(LF4). The wide leadform option is available for three high-speed IC photocouplers and five IGBT/MOSFET driver photocouplers. The new photocouplers can be directly mounted on PCB pads intended for SDIP6(F type) products. The SO6L(LF4)’s 2.3mm (max.) low profile package offers a ...
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Imagination is to press ahead with the sale of MIPS to Silicon Valley investment group Tallwood Venture Capital after another potential bidder pulled out of the process.
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RS Components has launched tool kits for maintenance engineers, technicians and electricians, including automotive and VDE-approved kits. The application-specific toolkits are designed to be a starting point for engineers or technicians with all the basic tools for a particular industry application, or even as a replacement tool kit for experienced users. The RS Pro kit ...
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76% of Britons are ‘fearful’ of the smart homes concept, despite the likely cost savings, with unapproved data collection cited as the greatest worry, according to price comparison website MoneySuperMarket, which has surveyed 2,000 people. Other concerns include the technology being hacked by criminals (51%), being made unusable by a virus (43%) and recording you ...
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XJTAG has updated its XJDeveloper test and programming IDE with test automation features. The XJDeveloper development and debug environment is used to set up and run JTAG tests, detecting faults on high-density boards without requiring test fixtures or functional testing. This release of the IDE, v3.6, incorporates a new documentation feature in XJEase files so ...
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A hydrogen fuel cell as been unveiled in Orkney, part of the Surf ‘n’ Turf hydrogen community energy project, led by charity Community Energy Scotland, working with the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), Orkney Islands Council, Eday Renewable Energy, and ITM Power. Surf ’n’ Turf is a pilot project, looking to circumvent local grid constraints ...
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ByteSnap Design has become an approved engineering consultant for NXP Semiconductors. The embedded systems design consultant has experience of design projects based on NXP chips including a smart home security system, a bus ticketing system and Apple Homekit temperature control system. Gérard Maniez, director, third-party technical support network at NXP, writes: “ByteSnap Design with their extensive ...
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Intel plans to add authentication and data protection security capabilities to its FPGA-based development boards for IoT designs. Intel’s DE10-Nano development board is now supported by an SDK from SecureRF with tech support for authenticating remote devices with a Cyclone V FPGA. As an alternative to ECC authentication techniques security algorithms offered by SecureRF, such ...
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Toshiba has signed an $18bn deal to sell its NAND chip division to a consortium led by private equity group Bain Capital that includes SK Hynix, Apple and Dell.
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Rohm has anounced a high definition audio system reference design based around its BM94803AEKU media decoder processor, aimed at Hi-fi audio equipment, Bluetooth speakers, separate audio components and USB audio DACs. Included in the SoC is a 108MHz ARM946ES and a dedicated DSP for CD media decoding and a co-packaged 16Mbit SDRAM – reducing mounting ...
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Drones can be used to detect human vital signs from a distance, according to the University of South Australia. The technique uses a standard camera and an image processing algorithm created by PhD students, Ali Al-Naji, pictured below, and Asanka Perera, and remotely measures heart and breathing rates on several people simultaneously, even if they ...
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The world’s largest lithium ion battery is being installed in Australia at the Hornsdale Wind Farm under an agreement between US firm Tesla, French renewable energy company Neoen (which owns the farm), and the South Australian Government. “At 100MW and 129MWh, the Hornsdale Power Reserve will become not only the largest renewable generator in the state ...
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IQD’s low jitter, tight stability IQXT-316 series VCTCXO uses proprietary ASIC technology to meet the tight short and medium term stability requirements (±50ppb to ±250ppb depending on the operating temperature range) required for packet network synchronisation for small cells. This, combined with slope performance as low as ±20ppb/degrees and low power consumption makes the IQXT-316 ...
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NAND supply will come into balance with demand next year, says DRAMeXchange. NAND demand has exceeded supply in all six quarters since Q3 2016. The NAND bit supply growth rate is currently projected at 42.9%, while the bit demand growth rate is projected at 37.7%. “The progress bottleneck in the transition from the 2D-NAND to ...
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Qualcomm develops reference designs for biometric patches that will enable care models, from perioperative care to assessing the impact of therapeutic interventions.
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Silicon Labs has produced a ‘clock tree on a chip’ with up to 12 outputs. Called Si5332, 230fs(rms) general jitter performance is claimed, with specific examples of: 245fs for clocking system PLLs, 196fs for SerDes PLLs, 220fs for PCIe Gen4 (16Gtransfer/s)and 366fs for FPGAs. The chip comes in three versions, with six, eight or 12 ...
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Samsung, Hitachi and SK Hynix join Intel in investing in a Nevada-based start-up company developing production systems for advanced node semiconductor manufacturing. Reno Sub-Systems develops semiconductor manufacturing systems for nanoscale IC processes. These include RF matching networks, RF power generators and gas delivery systems. The company has closed its Series C funding which was led by ...
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Philips Photonics and UK-based IQE are aiming to manufacture semiconductor lasers in mass production at cost levels equivalent to the manufacture of LEDs. Philips has completed a €23m project to create a production line for vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) for volume photonics applications such as data communications and lighting. The three year project, ...
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Tomorrow's electronic engineers can jump into the auto industry fast lane through real-world project-based learning, writes Dr Coorous Mohtadi of MathWorks
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Sir James Dyson is to build an electric car. Dyson says he is putting £2 billion into developing the car which should be on the road in 2020. “Battery technology is very important to Dyson, electric motors are very important to Dyson, environmental control is very important to us,” says Dyson, “I have been developing ...
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Infineon has brought out the CoolSiC Schottky diode 650 V G6 to complement the 600 V and 650 V CoolMOS 7 families. They are aiming at current and future applications in Server and PC power, Telecom equipment power, and PV inverters. The CoolSiC Schottky diode 650 V G6 has a new layout, new cell structure, and ...
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Saelig has brought out a pen-shaped battery-powered wireless oscilloscope that streams captured signals to almost any WiFi-connected screen. The IkaScope WS200 offers a 30MHz bandwidth with its 200MSa/s sampling rate and the maximum input is +/-40Vpp. It provides galvanically-isolated measurements even when a USB connection is charging the internal battery. It will work on desktop ...
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Texas Instruments has brought out MCUs with an integrated ultrasonic sensing analogue front end that enables smart water meters to deliver higher accuracy and lower power consumption. In addition, TI has introduced two new reference designs that make it easier to design modules for adding automated meter reading (AMR) capabilities to existing mechanical water meters. ...
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Future Electronics is selling an IoT development kit which costs $99. Developed with suppliers Cypress Semiconductor and Murata, the Nebula board is an IoT cloud ready board for prototype development. Wireless connectivity comes from the Murata 1DX module, which integrates the Cypress CYW4343W Wi-Fi and BT/BLE combo SoC. This includes a 2.4 GHz WLAN IEEE ...
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Xilinx has invested in a California-based start-up developing high performance programmable chip platforms. The five year old firm is called Efinix and is also being backed by Hong Kong X Technology Fund (HKX), and Samsung Electronics’ investment arm in a $9.5m funding round. Efinix has developed a programmable chip-level platform, it calls Quantum, which it says ...
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Allegro MicroSystems announces a new three-wire differential speed sensor integrated circuit, that includes its own bias magnet for zero-speed operation. Intended for gear tooth sensing in automotive transmission systems, it can also be used in recreational vehicles, industrial equipment, white goods, and exercise equipment. ATS668 has integrated EMC protection components, and is offered in a ...
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Western Digital has responded to Toshiba’s announced intention to sell its memory business to a consortium led by Bain and Hynix. WD says it has three actions going through arbitration procedures which could prevent the sale taking place. Western Digital’s statement on the decision reads: “We are disappointed that Toshiba would take this action despite ...
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Toshiba is sampling its 10TB MG06 Series Enterprise Capacity HDD s. The 10TB drives have maximum sustained transfer rate of 237MiB/s and an MTTF of 2.5M hours. The drive provides a SATA 6Gbit/s interface and 7,200 rpm performance. It supports emulated 512 Advanced Format (512e) technology for compatibility with legacy applications and operating environments; or ...
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Imec has developed cost-effective fine-pixel photolithography for manufacturing ultra-high resolution OLEDs. Imec, and its development partner Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) , aimed to push pixel density beyond 1000 ppi. Imec and CPT have verified that a novel photolithography process can allow for ultrafine OLED patterns. The proposed technique does not require using fine-metal masks to ...
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Samsung has taped out a 28nm FD-SOI MRAM and is preparing to use eMRAM as a core for SoCs. The technology was developed with IBM and Infineon and its first use will be in an NXP i.MX processor. Volume production is scheduled for 2018. Samsung is catching up with Everspin whose MRAM is made by ...
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Nexperia, the former Standard Products division of NXP, has brought out a range of 80 V dual Power-SO8 MOSFETs in the popular LFPAK56D package. With the addition of this new 80 V range of MOSFETs Nexperia now has devices, ranging from 30 V to 100 V. LFPAK56D is fully automotive qualified to AEC-Q101 and has ...
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Arduino has two new boards out which deliver connectivity – the Arduino MKR WAN 1300 (LoRa) and the Arduino MKR GSM 1400. The Arduino MKR WAN 1300 delivers LoRa low-power WAN connectivity, and the Arduino MKR GSM 1400 adds global 2G/3G communications capability. Both boards measure 67.64 x 25mm and,with low power consumption, are suitable ...
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LED make Osram has revealed the prototype for its thousand pixel matrix headlight LED. By pixelating the light source, arbitrary headlight beam patters can be created, extending the concept of main/dip beam to complex beam shapes that minimise dazzle while maximising useful illumination for the driver. Sketch of Eviyos Branded Eviyos, the 1,024 pixels are ...
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Globalfoundries will roll out a 12nm finfet process at its New York fab next year which is 15% denser with 10% better performance than its 14nm process. “We plan to introduce new client and graphics products based on GF’s 12nm process technology in 2018 as a part of our focus on accelerating our product and ...
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The already constrained supply of wafers is about to tighten further, reports Digitimes. 3D NAND, Chinese foundries and China memory fabs are driving 12 inch demand. LCD driver ICs, fingerprint sensors, power management ICs and CMOS image sensors are driving 8-inch demand. Wafer suppliers are in no hurry to increase capacity having been caught out ...
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HERE, the road-mapping company owned by BMW, Audi and Mercedes, spent $767 million on R&D in 2016, reports Reuters. HERE was bought by the Germans for €2.55 billion euros in 2015. A 15% stake was sold to Intel earlier this year. Another, smaller, stake was sold to Pioneer and a 10% stake was sold to ...
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The expected bid for Imagination by the China-backed private equity company Canyon Bridge has materialised. However the offered price of 182p per share has hardly moved the Imagination share price which was 123p before the bid and is 129p now, suggesting that the bid may fail because of regulatory issues. At 182p, Imagination is being ...
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Moore’s Law has been declared dead before. Progress may be slowing, but can new materials save it?
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Oxford Instruments NanoScience has signed a technology collaboration agreement with a Chinese firm to jointly develop high precision scanning probe microscopes (SPM). The UK firm will work with CASmF Science and Technology (CASmF) to apply its superconducting magnet system known as TeslatronPT, to a physical probe that scan 2D materials, nano-structures and superconductivity. Dr Junyun ...
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Moortec, the developer of silicon IP for monitoring chip performance, has opened a new UK headquarters on the Plymouth Science Park. Moortec’s IP monitors on-chip parameters such as process, voltage and temperature (PVT) in CMOS devices fabbed on 40nm down to 7nm process technologies. In this way designers can optimise chip performance. Ramsay Allen, v-p ...
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Vicor has extended its Cool-Power range of 48V buck regulators with a 20A output device. The PI352x range of 20A devices as to the existing 10A 48VIN PI354x products. The PI3523 is a 48VIN, 3.3VOUT nominal buck regulator capable of supplying up to 22A. This family of regulators enables 48VIN to 20A point-of-load voltages spanning ...
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A response to Minute Physics’s latest video promoting the Rayton Solar equity crowd funding campaign.
Dave looks at Rayton Solar and it’s investment risk and practical viability and asks the question, should Minute Physics have promoted this? And they roped in Bill Nye too!
Let me know what you think, did Minute Physics cross a line in doing a paid promotion of a risky commercial equity crowd funding campaign?
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A blog post on details of the Rayton Solar campaign
What can you fit in 1K words of microcontroller program memory?
Dave takes a look at two old projects of his published in Electronics Australia magazine using a PIC 16F84 with 1K of program memory.
Will the assembly language code still compile first go in MPLABX after 18 years?
Assembler Code Download
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The technology driving the move towards autonomous vehicles will change more than just cars and lorries, writes Richard Wilson. The government’s ambitious plan to explore the running of convoys of semi-autonomous lorries on UK motorways took everyone by surprise. Not least because autonomous vehicle technology is still very much in the development phase. So can ...
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The new Apple iPhones include some clever new tech that serves no purpose at all.
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A range of IoT‑ready sensors allow remote automated response systems to be implemented, writes Gabriele Fulco. The number of unattended and remote facilities has increased, thanks to the internet of things (IoT). Isolated and rough terrain locations as well as sites that require minimal attention can now be given fully automated and connected protection. The ...
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An internet parts library for printed circuit board design has now been adapted so that it can be searched inside the PCB123 design environment of Sunstone Circuits, the US-based design tool firm. These are the models created by SnapEDA and they conform to the latest IPC standards (IPC-7351B). This is intended to help PCB designers in ...
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The UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is to actively engage with industry to improve national measurement and data quality. Its aim is to “help the UK become a world-leader in emerging technologies such as 5G, quantum devices and graphene, and harness the power of big data for social and economic good”, said the laboratory, which ...
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Writing good code is an important skill for new embedded designers. Graduates can now have their skills in embedded C, C++ or UML assessed for free by software training company Feabhas. Creating reliable code for C and C++ in embedded applications is not always straight-forward and does require expertise. Jo Cooling, director at Feabhas: writes: ...
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A government-funded research project to develop semiconductor lasers for the design of miniature atomic clocks (MacV) has received new funding. Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC) in Cardiff leads the £705,000 project, which also involves CST Global, the Glasgow-based III-V opto-electronic, semiconductor foundry and Cardiff University and the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington. The aim of the ...
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Robotics designers need access to a choice of reliable, small, rugged and versatile connectors, writes Bob Stanton. Opportunities for small, affordable robots are burgeoning throughout sectors like manufacturing, distribution, security, healthcare, and for home users. Cost-effective, teachable, collaborative robots can now work safely alongside people in factories or packaging areas; mobile robots are taking on ...
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Google is paying HTC $1.1 billion for its IP and and for the transfer of HTC employees working on the Google Pixel phone. About half HTC’s R&D staff – about 2000 people – will move across to Google. HTC will continue to make its own phones and the Vive VR system. HTC has been struggling ...
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Imagination Technologies has revealed hardware neural network accelerator (NNA) intellectual property, as well as a pair of GPUs. 2048MACs/cycle in a single core, is predicted, with higher levels through multi-core integration. Scroll down for new Imagination GPUs “Companies building SoCs for mobile, surveillance, automotive and consumer systems can integrate the PowerVR Series2NX neural network accelerator for ...
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The next generation of prototyping based on FPGAs could solve the concurrent verification conundrum, writes Juergen Jaeger. With ever-increasing embedded software content in complex system‑on‑chip (SoC) devices, it has become crucial to develop and to verify software and hardware concurrently, and as early as possible in the design cycle. FPGA-based prototyping plays an increasingly important ...
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It pays to invest time to maintain your bill of materials as a design progresses, writes Leigh Gawne.
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Intel has delayed its 10nm processor Cannon Lake for the third time, reports Digitimes, because of 10nm production problems. The new date for Cannon Lake is now the end of next year. Cannon lake was originally scheduled for last year. The reasons cited are delays with its 10nm process. Yesterday, in Beijing, Intel said its ...
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Caroline Hayes shares some of the highlights for visitors to the Northern Manufacturing & Electronics show in Manchester.
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow say they have developed a new form of high-resolution ‘printing’ which could have wide-ranging applications in data storage, anti-counterfeiting measures, and digital imaging. The research, published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, describes the development of nano-scale plasmonic colour filters that display different colours depending on the orientation of ...
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French researchers at Leti have developed a technique for testing high-speed wireless communications on airplanes that allows different system deployments in cabins. In a joint research project with Dassault Aviation, Leti, which is a research institute of CEA Tech, demonstrated a channel-measurement campaign over Wi-Fi frequency in several airplanes, including Dassault’s Falcon business jet. A ...
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Global DRAM supply is forecast to grow by less than 20% next year, according to DRAMeXchange. DRAMeXchange points out that the big three DRAM suppliers – Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron – have opted to slow down their capacity expansions and technology migrations. This is likely to keep prices at high levels as during this ...
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Phil Valentine, MD at European Trade & Exhibition Services, explains how this year’s Northern Manufacturing Show reflects changes in the industry.
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LEDs can shed infrared light on low cost, long lifetime sensors to monitor carbon dioxide levels in buildings, suggests Ralph Weir. To most people carbon dioxide (CO2) is a ‘greenhouse gas’, but not directly harmful to humans. We breathe it out, plants take it in for photosynthesis. Whereas miners once took canaries into the mines ...
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It is reported that Toshiba has chosen the Bain consortium tobuy its chip business. This has been reported before but Toshiba has had to back-track on the choice of Bain in theface of legal objections from jv partner Western Digital. The Bain geoup contains Hynix, Apple, Kingston, Dell, INCJ, DBJ and some presence from Toshiva ...
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Globalfoundries and Soitec today announced that they have entered into a five-year agreement to ensure the volume supply of FD-SOI wafers. The agreement, which is effective immediately, builds on the existing relationship between the companies and guarantees wafer supply for GF’s 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) technology platform. “Globalfoundriesis delivering industry leading ultra-low power, performance-on-demand FD-SOI solutions ...
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In 2017, the 7% increase in the total pure-play foundry market is forecast to be almost entirely due to an 18% jump in <40nm feature size device sales, says IC Insights. Although expected to represent 60% of total pure-play foundry sales in 2017, the ≥40nm pure-play IC foundry market is forecast to be up only ...
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